A 200-year-old church building has disappeared from a village in central Russia, officials from the Russian Orthodox Church say. The building had stood near the village of Komarovo since 1809. It was intact in July but some time in early October thieves made off with it brick by brick, they said. Local prosecutors had been informed and an investigation was under way, a spokesman for the local Russian Orthodox Church said. The disappearance of the Church of the Resurrection, some 300 km (186 miles) north-east of Moscow, was not immediately noticed.
A 200-year-old church building has disappeared from a village in central Russia, officials from the Russian Orthodox Church say.
The building had stood near the village of Komarovo since 1809.
It was intact in July but some time in early October thieves made off with it brick by brick, they said.
Local prosecutors had been informed and an investigation was under way, a spokesman for the local Russian Orthodox Church said.
The disappearance of the Church of the Resurrection, some 300 km (186 miles) north-east of Moscow, was not immediately noticed.
A new offer from German power company RWE allows consumers for the first time to select a zero-carbon energy scheme fueled mostly by nuclear sources. But as Germany erupts in anti-nuclear protests, the company may be courting a backlash. Germany's nascent nuclear renaissance is going commercial. Earlier this week, on the same day that police clashed with thousands of protesters trying to block a delivery of nuclear waste headed for a radioactive dump near the northern German town of Gorleben, a power company released a new energy product designed to capture the business of what it claims is a growing community of pro-nuclear consumers. German consumers of electricity will now be able to choose a "Pro-Climate" package heavy on atomic energy. "Pro-Climate Power" is the name of the new electricity service available from RWE, one of Europe's largest electricity providers and based in the western German town of Essen. The service provides consumers with an electricity cocktail that derives 68 percent of its power from nuclear sources and 32 percent from hydroelectric energy sources. Although the plan is slightly more expensive than traditional packages, RWE is betting that consumers concerned about global warming will be willing to spend a little more to shrink their carbon footprint. Back in 2000, when Germany was governed by ex-chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition of Social Democrats and Greens, the government pledged to phase out the country's nuclear reactors. Some have already been shut down, and the final reactor is scheduled to go off line in 15 years. Recently, though, a number of politicians in Germany, many of them from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), have said they want to slow down the phase-out. Power industry lobbyists, in particular, would like to see reactor lifetimes extended because, once the costs of construction are paid off, nuclear power plants can generate huge profits.
A new offer from German power company RWE allows consumers for the first time to select a zero-carbon energy scheme fueled mostly by nuclear sources. But as Germany erupts in anti-nuclear protests, the company may be courting a backlash.
Germany's nascent nuclear renaissance is going commercial. Earlier this week, on the same day that police clashed with thousands of protesters trying to block a delivery of nuclear waste headed for a radioactive dump near the northern German town of Gorleben, a power company released a new energy product designed to capture the business of what it claims is a growing community of pro-nuclear consumers.
German consumers of electricity will now be able to choose a "Pro-Climate" package heavy on atomic energy. "Pro-Climate Power" is the name of the new electricity service available from RWE, one of Europe's largest electricity providers and based in the western German town of Essen. The service provides consumers with an electricity cocktail that derives 68 percent of its power from nuclear sources and 32 percent from hydroelectric energy sources. Although the plan is slightly more expensive than traditional packages, RWE is betting that consumers concerned about global warming will be willing to spend a little more to shrink their carbon footprint.
Back in 2000, when Germany was governed by ex-chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition of Social Democrats and Greens, the government pledged to phase out the country's nuclear reactors. Some have already been shut down, and the final reactor is scheduled to go off line in 15 years. Recently, though, a number of politicians in Germany, many of them from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), have said they want to slow down the phase-out. Power industry lobbyists, in particular, would like to see reactor lifetimes extended because, once the costs of construction are paid off, nuclear power plants can generate huge profits.
Europeans will soon be able to buy their own XO laptop. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation is planning to sell the devices via online store Amazon's European outlets from 17 November. The machines will be sold under the Give One, Get One scheme that the OLPC organisation has already run in the US. Under that scheme, buyers get one machine for themselves and the other is donated to a school child in a developing nation.
Europeans will soon be able to buy their own XO laptop.
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation is planning to sell the devices via online store Amazon's European outlets from 17 November.
The machines will be sold under the Give One, Get One scheme that the OLPC organisation has already run in the US.
Under that scheme, buyers get one machine for themselves and the other is donated to a school child in a developing nation.
An anti-rape poster showing a naked woman lying on a bed in a Christ-like pose has been condemned by angry Italian politicians as blasphemous. The poster, in which the woman's groin is discreetly covered by a white sheet but her breasts are bare, was commissioned by Italy's rape crisis helpline to persuade more victims of sexual assault to speak out.But the poster, designed to publicise the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Nov 25, has been condemned as sacrilegious by conservative politicians in Milan, who have vowed to stop 500 copies from being posted around the northern industrial city."I'll do everything in my power to stop this poster going up," said a city councillor, Maurizio Cadeo.He and other right-wing councillors said the poster was "blasphemous" and would offend the religious beliefs of many Italians."We're calling for the poster to be withdrawn because an important day like this should not be debased by such a sexual provocation," said councillor Carlo Fidanza, a member of the right-wing National Alliance party.
The poster, in which the woman's groin is discreetly covered by a white sheet but her breasts are bare, was commissioned by Italy's rape crisis helpline to persuade more victims of sexual assault to speak out.
But the poster, designed to publicise the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Nov 25, has been condemned as sacrilegious by conservative politicians in Milan, who have vowed to stop 500 copies from being posted around the northern industrial city.
"I'll do everything in my power to stop this poster going up," said a city councillor, Maurizio Cadeo.
He and other right-wing councillors said the poster was "blasphemous" and would offend the religious beliefs of many Italians.
"We're calling for the poster to be withdrawn because an important day like this should not be debased by such a sexual provocation," said councillor Carlo Fidanza, a member of the right-wing National Alliance party.
Question: are feminists ok with this poster?
The text is this:
The poster poses the question: 'Who Pays For Man's Sins?' and a caption which reads "Only four per cent of women who suffer sexual violence report their assailants."
but it's still a rather attractive young woman shown naked. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
You could be a bit more sensitive about it. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
It's a minefield to comment upon, as your reaction suggests (and, I hasten to say, your reaction is more legitimate than my ignorant comment about the poster).
I just wonder how to look like I'm sensitive about it, except by shutting up (but is that the goal?). In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Just a personal opinion - I don't speak for anyone else. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
I don't necessarily wnat her to look bloodied, but I want some sense that something sordid and bestial, a violation, has occured. I hate the idea that some bloke can look at her and go "phwoargh, wouldn't mind some of that as well". And they would with that image, believe me. At leasst here they would. keep to the Fen Causeway
This looks like something which seemed like a good idea in a design office but has no useful connection to the world most people live in.
dig that show, gotta tape it to watch after coming back from the hot springs! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
and let us know what you think...
it starts a bit slow, imo, so give it a chance to warm up yer pixels a bit. the production values (i can see tbg gagging on that phrase, lol), are top notch...almost too much so-
the stylist dept have a strong streak of perfectionism, which makes it mannered as fuck, but... respect for craft where its due.
takes the word 'gloss' to new levels :) ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
